Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cantinoa mutabilis
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hyptis mutabilis
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cantinoa mutabilis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Hyptis mutabilis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hyptis mutabilis
COMMON NAME:
Tropical Bushmint
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Celeste Ray cra_h_mutabilis1
September Aiken County SC
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Celeste Ray cra_h_mutabilis2
September Aiken County SC
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Celeste Ray cra_h_mutabilis3
September Aiken County SC
Flowers borne in dense, many-flowered, axillary clusters, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Celeste Ray cra_h_mutabilis4
September Aiken County SC
Corolla nearly regular, lower lip not fringed, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Celeste Ray cra_h_mutabilis5
September Aiken County SC
Calyx actinomorphic, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cantinoa mutabilis
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hyptis mutabilis
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cantinoa mutabilis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Hyptis mutabilis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hyptis mutabilis
3834
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Moist disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: South America
Common in GA, uncommon in SC
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This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Margins serrate
FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Mostly blue-violet (white-pink?)
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed corolla
4 exserted stamens (2 long, 2 short)
Superior ovary
Bisexual
Flowers in dense axillary clusters
FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of mericarps
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